Dell Technologies lays out its hybrid cloud plan with a heavy dose of VMware
Dell Technologies’ crown jewel in its portfolio is VMware and the technology giant is now making it the glue that holds its portfolio of companies together.
Dell Technologies has unveiled a handful of new solutions aimed at equipping customers with the tech required to take advantage of “transformative” trends including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and security.
“This is the most exciting time I’ve seen in my 30 plus years in technology,” Dell Technologies vice chairman of Products & Operations Jeff Clarke said during his day two keynote at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas.
“It’s a digital world. The degree to which organisations harness the power of their data capital will determine the winners and losers in the digital economy. The whole point of our Dell Technologies portfolio — from the edge to the core to the cloud — is to help our customers innovate, meet these disruptive challenges head on, and win.”
The company claims its new portfolio “touches everywhere data lives”, with CTO John Roese saying it is the combination of edge, core, and cloud that is critical for innovation.
“These latest technologies can deliver the foundation customers need to create, process, transport, store, protect, and consume data — wherever it lives,” the company said in a press release.
Building on Monday’s Unified Workspace announcement, the company on Tuesday said it was advancing its edge capabilities in the “next step of the data journey”, which is at the enterprise edge or branch office.
Announced on Tuesday, the new Dell EMC SD-WAN Edge, powered by VMware, available in July, will have VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud software as a subscription with Dell EMC hardware.
Similarly, Dell Technologies Consulting Services also is debuting three new services for customers adopting SD-WAN technologies: Advisory, Design, and Implementation.
With the core touted as the operational hub for hybrid clouds, Dell Technologies has also introduced the renamed Dell EMC PowerSwitch portfolio which aims at simplifying and speeding access to data and applications.
Essentially, it was renamed to point towards the direction Dell wants to take the appliance.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5200-ON delivers up to 2.5X the performance of previous models and is available in 12- and 24-port options. According to the company, it is ideal to modernise, automate, and transform networks for edge, storage, and HCI implementations.
Starting today, Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248-ON will also support more performance-intensive and mission-critical HCI deployments, managed by VxRail with SmartFabric Services integration.
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